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If it’s one thing semi-personal tidbit of information I’ll spread around is that I’m a Guinness fan through and through. Guinness drinkers and builders/remodelers have something in common now—a building product.

Flooring by Mountain Lumber has been created from planks salvaged from reclaimed oak brewery vats from Guinness revered St. James Gate brewery in Dublin, Ireland.

The limited supply of wood planks originally used in Guinness Brewing is extremely limited—the company is importing 25,000 board feet of English Brown Oak which will be milled into Mountain Lumber’s Entique Guinness Oak flooring.

An earlier offering of the brown oak flooring in 2003 proved extremely popular, with the entire stock being claimed in pre-sale ordering. Mountain Lumber is now taking orders for this most recent batch. After this, however, the product will never again be available.

“The first time we offered the Guinness material much of it sold sight unseen,” said John Williams, vice president and head of sales for Mountain Lumber. “People were so eager to have a piece of Guinness history in their own home, they just sent a check and asked us to send them some.”

The reclaimed wood was shipped to Mountain Lumber’s facilities in Ruckersville, Virginia, kiln dried and re-milled to become the finished product. The company’s artisans sanded the planks, preserving the wedges in the knots and retaining accents left by iron bands that once wrapped the massive vats. The warm-colored oak flooring ranges in hues from golden brown to dark brown.